Former Sri Lanka Cricket Chair of Selectors, Sanath Jayasuriya has been banned from all cricket for two years after admitting breaching two counts of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code, the ICC said in a statement today.

Police fired tear-gas and used water cannons to disperse protesting students of the Higher National Diploma (HND) at the Lotus Roundabout a short while ago, the police said.

State Minister Ranjan Ramanayake said today a women politician was also among the politicians using cocaine.

While strongly rejecting Indian claim of targeting an alleged terrorist camp near Balakot, Pakistan said yesterday India has committed an “uncalled for aggression to which Pakistan shall respond at the time and place of its choosing.”

The segment of the Galle Road from the Ceramic Junction towards the NSA Roundabout in Colombo has been temporarily closed due to State Veterinary Surgeons’ Association (SVSA) protest, police said.

Five persons including MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage’s son, who were granted bail yesterday over the hit and run accident in Bambalapitiya, had been released today.

Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) chairman Ramal Siriwardane has resigned from his post.

Pakistan’s military said on Tuesday that Indian military aircraft crossed into its territory in the disputed Kashmir region and ’’released a payload’’ after Pakistan scrambled its own jets.

The United Kingdom told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday that they welcomed the decision of Sri Lankan Government to return more land to its people, and to establish an Office for Reparations.

Campaigners have called on the Mayor of Harrow, Kareema Marikar, to resign after she was pictured with senior military figures during a visit to Sri Lanka, Harrow Times reported on Monday.

In a surprise to Pakistani security forces, the Indian Air Force reportedly dropped around 1,000 kg bombs on Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camps across the Line of Control (LoC) in Muzafarabad sector early morning on Tuesday, Indian media reported

Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said he submitted a Cabinet memorandum asking for general amnesty to all those who are accused of war crimes – both from the armed forces and the LTTE.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Vietnam for a summit with US President Donald Trump later this week.

State Minister Ranjan Ramanayake should produce the names of ministers and MPs who are in the habit of taking cocaine in a bid to close the case without further delay, Deputy Minister Nalin Bandara said yesterday.

A sample of skeletal remains of the two businessmen who were allegedly abducted and killed in Ratgama will be referred to a DNA test after obtaining a court order, Matara General Hospital JMO Sumith Ambepitiya said.

Some MPs associated with drug dealers were trying to block the police and judiciary from acting independently, thereby undermining the independent commissions set up under the 19th amendment to the constitution, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe sa

Five Air Force personnel – four in uniform and one in civvies – were taken into custody by the Colombo Division Police Vice Squad today while they were transporting a stock of illicit cigarettes worth of Rs.400,000 in a vehicle belonging to the S

The committee report on unruly incidents that took place in Parliament last November is biased towards the United National Party (UNP), the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) said today. PHU leader and MP Udaya Gammanpila told a news briefing that out of t

Former Navy Commander Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda today filed a fundamental rights (FR) petition in the Supreme Court (SC) seeking an interim order preventing him from being arrested in connection with the investigations into the abduction and killi

The driver of the Defender vehicle which involved in the hit and run accident in Bambalapitiya yesterday, was remanded till March 11. The seven other suspects including MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage’s son were released on bail.

A 53-year-old man was arrested along with a stock of army uniforms and ammunition at a house belonging to a shooter of Makandure Madush in Kamburupitiya this morning, police said.

The United National Party (UNP) is geared up to abolish the executive presidency, Deputy Minister Nalin Bandara told a press conference held today.

Four Sri Lankan expatriates were killed while three others injured in a road accident in Jebel Akhdar on Saturday, Muscat Daily reported.

British Olivia Colman won the Oscar for the best actress, while Rami Malek won the Oscar for the best actor at the 91st Academy Awards held at Los Angeles in California, US.

Eight individuals, including Colombo Municipal Councillor Duminda Sudammika Attygalle and the son of MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage, were arrested by the police in connection with the hit-and-run accident on Sunday morning at Bambalapitiya in which Bore

Police said that an investigation has been launched into an alleged attack on veteran singer Rookantha Gunatillake where he was said to have suffered minor injuries and his car damaged. The alleged attack was said to have taken place in Boralesgamuwa

The leaders of the political parties aligned with the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) are reported to have requested President Maithripala Sirisena and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa to have one on one meeting and work out a formula fo

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe over the weekend invited all parties to join in the struggle to safeguard the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

The National Police Commission, an independent body responsible for the Sri Lanka Police Service recently received four new members, including its new Chairman, for a tenure of three years in its fifth commission from March 2019, the Daily Mirror lea

The Defender vehicle (WP:FZ9143) which fled after knocking down Borella Police Traffic OIC in Bambalapitiya today, was found at a house in Pelawatta, Battaramulla.